If you want my cooperation in having the ability to have input into the kids’ parenting, you might not want to do stuff like pointedly undermining my authority by suggesting that Megan circumvent her practice schedule as a condition of renting her sax, by getting her grandmother to pay for it. It’s thousands of dollars, and I would not ask her to do that anyway—but that’s totally beside the point. “...and it won’t be threatened to be taken away....” Do you see how you are still trying to position me as the badguy and yourself as the awesome savior, even after all these years? You should stop doing that. (2015)